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Dr. PoopiePants, please do not link to NSFW photos without warning. Our guideline is the two-click rule (no direct links).
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Sorry, I didn’t expect a cross-wearing young lady to expose herself in such a manner; I assumed she was wearing brown, bumpy pasties…but on closer inspection, I can see my error. Duly noted.
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Ok, I moved here from Seattle 6 years ago. It rains here a lot, it’s way far north, it’s on the same latitude as Moscow. It’s dark, it’s grey, and it’s cold. I get it, I really do.
But what the hell happened to summer this year? It’s fucking August, I’ve already got seasonal affective disorder, I’m wearing a sweater and jeans and wool socks IN MY FLAT, and it’s pissing down rain and cold as hell out side. Global warming my speckled arse.
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Global warming might actually make Europe colder, by disrupting the Gulf Stream. See here.
All of the above climate changes are, in fact, due to climate change.
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It’s because I didn’t visit your fine country this summer. I was there last year and there was a “heat wave”*. When I come back, I’ll bring summer. If you ask nicely, I might leave the humidity at home.
(*Considering that eastern NC has been suffering under 100+ degree days with 150% humidity for the last few weeks, I can honestly say that there is a cultural divide in our definitions of heat wave. Me being able to wear jeans in the middle of London in July is not a heat wave. That is an anomaly I still haven’t been able to comprehend.)
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Not to hijack too abruptly, but as an American who has yet to get overseas, I don’t have a good idea of European (English/Irish esp) summer temperatures.
What’s the typical July/August high? Is it very humid? Extra points if you can tell me in Farenheit!
-Cem
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What’s the typical July/August high? Is it very humid? Extra points if you can tell me in Farenheit!
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There’s no ‘typical’ summer day, as this thread suggests! A decent July day is low/mid 20s (70s), hot is high 20s (80s), exceptional is anything that gets into the 30s (90s). A few years ago we hit the 100F mark, for the first time on record.
Humidity is no concern - anything into the 80s or beyond is probably the result of an anticyclone, warm dry air in a static high pressure area.
Go elsewhere in Europe, and it’s a different matter - central Europe has a continental climate which easily gets towards the 100s, and similar temperatures are nothing unexpected in Mediteranean areas. I was in central Spain a few weeks ago, and it was 40c+, but it wasn’t unpleasant, being still and dry, in an almost semi-desert climate.
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There’s no ‘typical’ summer day, as this thread suggests! A decent July day is low/mid 20s (70s), hot is high 20s (80s), exceptional is anything that gets into the 30s (90s). A few years ago we hit the 100F mark, for the first time on record.
Humidity is no concern - anything into the 80s or beyond is probably the result of an anticyclone, warm dry air in a static high pressure area.
Go elsewhere in Europe, and it’s a different matter - central Europe has a continental climate which easily gets towards the 100s, and similar temperatures are nothing unexpected in Mediteranean areas. I was in central Spain a few weeks ago, and it was 40c+, but it wasn’t unpleasant, being still and dry, in an almost semi-desert climate.
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I suppose it would have made sense to ask this in the context of the last question, but how low does the temp get in a “normal” (got me once…quote marks hereafter!) winter?
I have to say that England/Ireland sounds pretty darn temperate. I would love to have a “super-hot” day hit the 90s. Chicago (in a “normal” year) ranges from 100F+ in the summer to -10F or so (with -50F windchills) in January.
GomiBoy…it seems to me that England resembles Seattle fairly well in terms of weather…have you been spoiled somewhere else?
-Cem
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I suppose it would have made sense to ask this in the context of the last question, but how low does the temp get in a “normal” (got me once…quote marks hereafter!) winter?
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That depends (as does the summer weather) on location. I’m in the southeast, and a day which stays below freezing counts as a cold one, with heavy snowfall unusual. Head onto higher land, especially in Scotland, and it’s a different matter. And head to more remote places and you can get some pretty nasty weather - I’ve got relatives on the far northwest tip of Ireland, and it’s not unusual for them to have an Atlantic storm provide a whole week of Force 10 wind.
Yep, that’s a maritime climate plus the gulf stream for ya!
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Sorry, I didn’t expect a cross-wearing young lady to expose herself in such a manner; I assumed she was wearing brown, bumpy pasties…but on closer inspection, I can see my error. Duly noted.
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Hijack: one of my best friends knows that young lady.
Leilani…or summink like it
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Leilani…or summink like it
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Like you didn’t know already, [Harry H. Corbett]* you dirty old man*! [/Harry H. Corbett]
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Like you didn’t know already, [Harry H. Corbett]* you dirty old man*! [/Harry H. Corbett]
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…and proud of it my old son 
Takes one to know one…na, na, na-na, na
I’ll have a bath now and take a jar of pickled onions with me
Well, I have officially decided that summer is gone for good.
It might still be August, but I am treating it like a lovely warm Autumn… the blackberries are starting to come out, the nights are drawing in (we had the floodlights on at the tennis club last night), and Champions League footie has started.
Instead of pining for the summer-that-never-was, I am going to embrace what should be an amazing autumn… the apple trees look fit to burst round here, and every hedgerow seems chock full of berries.
Season of mist and mellow-fruitfulness… it’s always been my fave time of year, so I’m glad I can start it a few weeks early 
Apple trees in the Midlands? Hedgerows?
:)
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Apple trees in the Midlands? Hedgerows?
:)
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This is rural Warwickshire, dear boy! Hedgerows all over the place!
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This is rural Warwickshire, dear boy! Hedgerows all over the place!
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Thought it wasn’t nought but pig farms up there… teach me to not know my English countryside 
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Thought it wasn’t nought but pig farms up there… teach me to not know my English countryside
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Well living in Lunnon it’s no more than can be expected*
*said he while gazing at the dark satanic mills
I guess I can leave the shorts at home when I head to the UK on Saturday, eh?
Maybe pack a sweater as well, since the highs in Glasgow are around 15 C.
But answer me this e-logic… where can I go apple-picking as I cruise through the midlands?
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I guess I can leave the shorts at home when I head to the UK on Saturday, eh?
Maybe pack a sweater as well, since the highs in Glasgow are around 15 C.
But answer me this e-logic… where can I go apple-picking as I cruise through the midlands?
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Here are a selection of pick-your-own orchards and farm shops in the Midlands
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I guess I can leave the shorts at home when I head to the UK on Saturday, eh?
Maybe pack a sweater as well, since the highs in Glasgow are around 15 C.
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Uh, yeah, and pack a raincoat. I was in Edinburgh Tue Wed and definitely could use a sweater. London today is pretty shivery outside - my nipples could cut glass.
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Uh, yeah, and pack a raincoat. I was in Edinburgh Tue Wed and definitely could use a sweater. London today is pretty shivery outside - my nipples could cut glass.
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Ya big jessie! 
Edinburgh can be right cold when the wind is off the sea though, I’ll give you that.